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No one is stopping you from being clear, buddy. So stop saying, “let me be clear.” This ain’t “Let my people go.” There is a constant subtle implication that “people” are holding him back or hamstringing him in some way. Oh if only those villains would only let him be clear, we might not go off the fiscal cliff!

The straw man version:
“Let me be clear. I’m not going to confiscate all guns, handguns, long guns, any and every type of gun. And yet I’m not going to allow people to own whatever weapon they’d like, such as hand grenades, tanks, and portable nuclear weapons”
(as if anyone ever suggested either one)

The flat-out lie version:
“Let me be clear. I will do whatever I can to create and perserve American jobs”
(while supporting every job-killing policy there is)

Every day, a new straw-man, a new flat-out lie.

Did you check out what he said yesterday?

“And as I said on Sunday night, there’s no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence in our society.”

This is our great orator? Total straw man. NO ONE, no one, suggested laws can “prevent every senseless act of violence”. So thanks so much for debunking that idea. Twice. Yesterday, and then on Sunday, in case we forgot from day to day.

Apart from “let me be clear” — “look” was his other tell. People in the administration have realized this, and he has obviously had a speech trainer working with him in the past few year. I rarely hear him say either one now. Still haven’t picked up on any new tell that he is lying (other than just when his lips are moving). Anyone else notice any new tells?